Analytical Skills Jobs

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 6,475 9,861 8,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.51% 9.09% 9.35%
As % of the General category 16.43% 15.80% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,457 5,396 4,629
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% -0.21%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,306
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -

All General Skills
UK

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 39,420 62,409 62,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.09% 57.55% 67.49%
Number of salaries quoted 18,449 40,598 35,177
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,947 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.05% -9.52% +5.00%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills.

Salary trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 5,791 £55,000 +10.00% 7,944
UK excluding London +6 4,014 £50,000 +11.11% 4,652
Work from Home +4 2,351 £55,000 +4.76% 3,713
London +3 2,004 £65,000 -3.70% 4,140
North of England +15 1,688 £50,000 +7.53% 1,146
North West +14 1,283 £50,055 +5.38% 693
South East -12 719 £55,000 +12.24% 1,468
Midlands -8 529 £47,500 +11.76% 598
East of England -8 348 £45,000 - 379
South West +5 336 £50,721 +12.71% 517
Scotland +55 319 £53,750 +19.44% 335
West Midlands -11 314 £47,500 +11.76% 353
Yorkshire +9 300 £45,000 -5.26% 338
East Midlands -14 215 £47,750 +15.06% 231
North East +9 103 £39,100 -6.90% 121
Wales -21 40 £55,000 +22.22% 131
Northern Ireland +32 30 £55,000 -11.15% 115
Channel Islands +4 6 £80,000 +18.52% 77
Isle of Man -4 1 £31,000 -38.00% 1

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 144 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.16%) Oracle Application Server
3 71 (1.10%) CMS
4 63 (0.97%) Confluence
5 62 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 52 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.40%) IBM Domino
7 26 (0.40%) nginx
8 22 (0.34%) SAS
9 20 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
10 19 (0.29%) Apache
11 11 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 10 (0.15%) WordPress
13 8 (0.12%) Camunda
13 8 (0.12%) Skype for Business
14 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.11%) Moodle
15 6 (0.093%) Kinematics
15 6 (0.093%) Luigi
Applications
1 469 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 429 (6.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 283 (4.37%) Chatbot
4 264 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
5 101 (1.56%) Abaqus
6 69 (1.07%) Mathcad
7 44 (0.68%) MS Visio
8 35 (0.54%) Maya
9 31 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
10 19 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
11 14 (0.22%) AutoCAD
12 13 (0.20%) Trello
13 10 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
14 8 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.12%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
15 7 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
15 7 (0.11%) SPSS
16 6 (0.093%) Blender
17 4 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.27%) NetSuite
2 65 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 51 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 42 (0.65%) SAP BPC
5 40 (0.62%) Infor LN
6 35 (0.54%) Shopify
7 26 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
8 14 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 12 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.17%) SAP IBP
11 10 (0.15%) Magento
11 10 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
11 10 (0.15%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
12 9 (0.14%) Maximo
13 8 (0.12%) Primavera
13 8 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 998 (15.41%) Azure
2 786 (12.14%) AWS
3 479 (7.40%) Power Platform
4 414 (6.39%) GCP
5 271 (4.19%) Serverless
6 269 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 235 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
8 233 (3.60%) SaaS
9 138 (2.13%) Google Analytics
10 99 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 76 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
12 75 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 69 (1.07%) Google Ads
13 69 (1.07%) PaaS
14 66 (1.02%) Snowflake
15 64 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
15 64 (0.99%) Entra ID
16 59 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 59 (0.91%) GitHub
17 54 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 750 (11.58%) VPN
2 467 (7.21%) DNS
3 270 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
4 220 (3.40%) Broadband
5 139 (2.15%) Firewall
6 85 (1.31%) WAN
7 83 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 62 (0.96%) LAN
9 54 (0.83%) DHCP
10 47 (0.73%) VLAN
11 37 (0.57%) Network Security
12 34 (0.53%) Wireless
13 33 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
13 33 (0.51%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.46%) Internet
15 25 (0.39%) 5G
15 25 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
16 23 (0.36%) VoIP
17 19 (0.29%) BGP
18 18 (0.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 435 (6.72%) Power BI
2 274 (4.23%) Tableau
3 237 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 194 (3.00%) SQL Server
5 138 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 104 (1.61%) Big Data
7 98 (1.51%) Relational Database
8 85 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
9 82 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 75 (1.16%) Data Mining
11 71 (1.10%) Metadata
12 67 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 62 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 56 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
15 55 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 49 (0.76%) NoSQL
17 37 (0.57%) BigQuery
18 36 (0.56%) MySQL
19 35 (0.54%) Hadoop
20 32 (0.49%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 181 (2.80%) Git
2 164 (2.53%) JIRA
3 93 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 46 (0.71%) Selenium
5 45 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
6 36 (0.56%) JUnit
7 34 (0.53%) Maven
8 20 (0.31%) GitLab
9 19 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 17 (0.26%) Postman
11 16 (0.25%) JMeter
12 15 (0.23%) Mockito
12 15 (0.23%) Subversion
13 14 (0.22%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.20%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.19%) Bazaar
15 12 (0.19%) SonarQube
16 11 (0.17%) Cypress.io
17 9 (0.14%) Locust
17 9 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 3,127 (48.29%) Social Skills
2 2,435 (37.61%) Finance
3 1,333 (20.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 752 (11.61%) Marketing
5 634 (9.79%) Banking
6 512 (7.91%) Law
7 440 (6.80%) Retail
8 398 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
9 382 (5.90%) Financial Institution
10 357 (5.51%) Manufacturing
11 308 (4.76%) French Language
12 296 (4.57%) German Language
13 286 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
14 263 (4.06%) Legal
15 202 (3.12%) Electronics
16 184 (2.84%) Advertising
17 175 (2.70%) Public Sector
18 155 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
19 124 (1.92%) Telecoms
20 97 (1.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,257 (19.41%) Analyst
2 1,157 (17.87%) Senior
3 743 (11.47%) Developer
4 484 (7.47%) Lead
5 471 (7.27%) Software Developer
6 325 (5.02%) Trainer
7 290 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 285 (4.40%) Credit Analyst
9 284 (4.39%) Research Analyst
10 218 (3.37%) Architect
11 217 (3.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 185 (2.86%) Business Analyst
12 185 (2.86%) Consultant
13 165 (2.55%) Data Analyst
14 162 (2.50%) Product Manager
15 151 (2.33%) Software Engineer
16 139 (2.15%) Senior Manager
17 136 (2.10%) IT Support
18 130 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
18 130 (2.01%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
2 134 (2.07%) React
3 128 (1.98%) .NET
4 117 (1.81%) HTML
5 113 (1.75%) Node.js
6 101 (1.56%) REST
7 77 (1.19%) CSS
8 71 (1.10%) Spring
9 70 (1.08%) RESTful
10 68 (1.05%) AngularJS
10 68 (1.05%) Pandas
11 64 (0.99%) Kafka
12 55 (0.85%) Spring Boot
13 53 (0.82%) Middleware
14 52 (0.80%) JSON
15 46 (0.71%) SOAP
16 36 (0.56%) Web Services
17 27 (0.42%) Hibernate
17 27 (0.42%) XML
18 25 (0.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 732 (11.31%) Cyberattack
2 456 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
3 396 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 346 (5.34%) Credit Risk
5 284 (4.39%) Fixed Income
6 267 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 156 (2.41%) Algorithms
8 150 (2.32%) Social Media
9 145 (2.24%) Product Ownership
10 138 (2.13%) FMCG
11 97 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 95 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 82 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 77 (1.19%) Driving Licence
15 76 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
16 71 (1.10%) Robotics
17 66 (1.02%) Digital Media
18 65 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
19 62 (0.96%) Security Posture
20 61 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 868 (13.41%) Linux
2 745 (11.51%) Android
3 601 (9.28%) Windows
4 88 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 56 (0.86%) Unix
6 45 (0.69%) Windows Vista
7 36 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 24 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.15%) Windows 7
11 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.077%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.077%) VMS
13 5 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.077%) zOS
14 4 (0.062%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.031%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,122 (48.22%) Problem-Solving
2 1,768 (27.31%) Agile
3 1,100 (16.99%) Analytics
4 1,095 (16.91%) Decision-Making
5 994 (15.35%) Risk Management
6 979 (15.12%) Mathematics
7 883 (13.64%) Project Management
8 835 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
9 808 (12.48%) Line Management
10 699 (10.80%) DevOps
11 648 (10.01%) Mentoring
12 639 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 583 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 577 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
15 549 (8.48%) Data Science
16 541 (8.36%) CI/CD
17 529 (8.17%) Machine Learning
18 482 (7.44%) OO
19 478 (7.38%) OOP
20 475 (7.34%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1,567 (24.20%) Python
2 896 (13.84%) SQL
3 687 (10.61%) Java
4 525 (8.11%) C++
5 455 (7.03%) Go
6 338 (5.22%) PowerShell
7 295 (4.56%) Bash
8 277 (4.28%) TypeScript
9 272 (4.20%) JavaScript
10 139 (2.15%) C#
11 91 (1.41%) R
12 53 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 52 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 50 (0.77%) Rust
14 50 (0.77%) VBA
15 39 (0.60%) C
16 36 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 28 (0.43%) PHP
19 24 (0.37%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2,389 (36.90%) Degree
2 1,004 (15.51%) Master's Degree
3 649 (10.02%) Security Cleared
4 566 (8.74%) PhD
5 509 (7.86%) DV Cleared
6 299 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 280 (4.32%) CFA
8 209 (3.23%) DBS Check
9 187 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 139 (2.15%) PMI Certification
11 132 (2.04%) HND
12 119 (1.84%) SC Cleared
13 118 (1.82%) ACCA
14 116 (1.79%) CISSP
15 114 (1.76%) CIMA
16 105 (1.62%) PMP
17 104 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
18 74 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
19 71 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
20 67 (1.03%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (5.79%) QA
2 226 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 175 (2.70%) GDPR
4 126 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 102 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 86 (1.33%) NIST
7 70 (1.08%) SLA
8 60 (0.93%) PMO
9 48 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 48 (0.74%) GAAP
10 45 (0.69%) IFRS
11 41 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
12 39 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 35 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 32 (0.49%) PCI DSS
15 31 (0.48%) GRC
16 15 (0.23%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.19%) GMP
17 12 (0.19%) GxP
18 11 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 815 (12.59%) Docker
2 285 (4.40%) Hyper-V
3 265 (4.09%) vSphere
4 262 (4.05%) VMware NSX
5 176 (2.72%) Active Directory
6 36 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (0.25%) Firmware
8 15 (0.23%) HDFS
9 12 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 11 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.046%) Postfix
15 2 (0.031%) RACF
15 2 (0.031%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 2 (0.031%) zsh
16 1 (0.015%) Snort
16 1 (0.015%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 742 (11.46%) Ansible
2 371 (5.73%) Terraform
3 168 (2.59%) Kubernetes
4 40 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (0.51%) Grafana
6 23 (0.36%) SCCM
7 17 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.20%) SCOM
9 12 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.15%) Nagios
12 8 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (0.12%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.12%) Packer
13 6 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.093%) SCOrch
13 6 (0.093%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.077%) Nessus
14 5 (0.077%) Puppet
Vendors
1 968 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 403 (6.22%) Google
3 333 (5.14%) Cisco
4 310 (4.79%) Splunk
5 288 (4.45%) Bloomberg
6 287 (4.43%) Oracle
7 284 (4.39%) SAP
8 275 (4.25%) PayPal
9 273 (4.22%) Juniper
10 262 (4.05%) 3PAR
11 176 (2.72%) Databricks
12 145 (2.24%) Salesforce
13 143 (2.21%) Adobe
14 100 (1.54%) ServiceNow
15 64 (0.99%) Facebook
16 61 (0.94%) TikTok
16 61 (0.94%) VMware
17 53 (0.82%) Infor
18 52 (0.80%) Cognos
19 43 (0.66%) Avaloq